News of the outbreak of war took Conquering five months to reach the Indian Ocean but British forces , recently engaged Forming_relationships in the Third Anglo-Mysore War , were mobilised Becoming_a_member in preparation and immediately seized the ports of French India .

The Company soon expanded Expansion its territories around its bases in Bombay and Madras ; later , the Anglo-Mysore Wars ( 1766–1799 ) and the Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1772–1818 ) led to Causation control Control of even more of India .

The battle Hostile_encounter honour of Mysore commemorates the action of native units of the British East India Company in the Third Anglo-Mysore War of 1789–92 .

The Third Anglo-Mysore War went on for about two years in three campaigns .